Dennis Desai, MD FRCS FACS
Senior Medical Officer/Deputy Privacy Officer The Canadian Medical Protective Association Ottawa, Ontario

Dr. Desai graduated from medicine at the University of Ottawa in 1985. After a rotating internship and a year in general practice, he went back to the University of Ottawa to complete a general surgery residency in 1992. An interest in travel then led to surgical registrar appointments in England and in New Zealand.

Upon his return to Canada, Dr. Desai travelled and worked in a number of cities across the country, including Yellowknife, Grande Prairie and Orillia. In July 2008, he moved to Ottawa to join the CMPA.

Dalilah Fortin, MD FRCSC
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario; Program Director – Thoracic Surgery London, Ontario

Dr. Fortin completed her Medical Degree and General Surgery training at University Laval in Quebec. In 2003, she moved to London, University of Western Ontario, to pursue specialty training both in Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, after which she started her practice at the London Health Sciences Centre, dividing her clinical work between these two subspecialties. Her other main interest relates to Medical Education. Since 2008 she is the program director for the Thoracic Surgery training program at Western University, and has participated in various roles related to medical education at the Royal College level including the examination committee for Critical Care and surveyor for Royal College Accreditation.

William R. Geddie, MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology; University of Toronto; Division of Cytopathology, University Health Network; Toronto, Ontario

Dr. Geddie completed his undergraduate medical education and post-graduate pathology training at the University of Toronto. During a fellowship in respiratory pathology at the Brompton Hospital in London England in 1983 he became interested in fine needle biopsy cytology and this was reinforced during several visits to the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm under the mentorship of the late Dr. Torsten Löwhagen. He spent seventeen years community hospital pathology practice and in 2003 joined the cytopathology group at University Health Network in Toronto where teaching and performing fine needle biopsy of superficial lymph nodes, and ROSE during sampling of deep seated lymph nodes forms a large part of his practice.

Dr. Geddie’s interests span the promotion of basic fine needle biopsy as a cost effective technique in resource limited settings to the development of molecular cytopathology and digital imaging and telecytology at the other end of the resource spectrum. He and Dr. Andrew Field have taught extensively in Africa and Asia and recently published a book on needle biopsy of lymph node and spleen in the “Cytohistology of Small Tissue Samples” series sponsored by the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology.

WA (Bill) McCauley, MD MHPE FRCPC
Medical Advisor, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Toronto, Ontario; Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Western University London, Ontario

Dr. William (Bill) McCauley graduated from the University of Western Ontario’s (now Western University) Doctor of Medicine program in 1987and obtained a Masters in Health Professionals Education degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999. In 2002, he was appointed as Western’s representative to the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). Dr. McCauley was subsequently hired by the CPSO to serve on staff as a Medical Advisor in Practice Assessment and Enhancement. This position provides Dr. McCauley with the opportunity to be involved in education and assessment program development both at the CPSO and through interacting with many external stakeholders to the CPSO’s work. Dr. McCauley is the Past President of the Coalition for Physician Enhancement. He sits on several national working groups regarding physician regulation and quality improvement. He continues to practice Emergency Medicine in London, Ontario.

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD PhD
Director, Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program
Associate Professor of Surgery,
University of Toronto
Division of Thoracic Surgery,
Toronto General Hospital
University Health Network

Colin Schieman, MD BSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Thoracic Residency Program Director,
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario